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title: Then he returned to the mother and daughter, and threw the swan's pl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he returned to the mother and daughter, and threw the swan's plumage over them; the feathers immediately closed around them, and they rose up from the earth in the form of two white swans. Who acts: beauty, feathers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 44

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Then he returned to the mother and daughter, and threw the swan's plumage over them; the feathers immediately closed around them, and they rose up from the earth in the form of two white swans.

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**Who acts:** beauty, feathers · **What happens:** return, throw, close, rise up, form · **To what, where:** plumage, feathers, earth, two white swans

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:87:44
# text = Then he returned to the mother and daughter, and threw the swan's plumage over them; the feathers immediately closed around them, and they rose up from the earth in the form of two white swans.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | beauty |  |  |  | then | to the mother and daughter *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result |
| 2 | **throw** | past | beauty *not said here* | the swan's plumage |  |  |  | over arms *= arm* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plumage=Theme over they=Destination |
| 3 | **close** | participle · passive |  | the feathers |  |  |  | around arms *= arm*; immediately *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **rise up** | past | feathers *= feather* |  |  | the earth in the form of two white swans |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | two white swans |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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